Arab League Sanctions Syria

As Syria continues a brutal suppression of protesters, the Arab League approved a vote Sunday to slap unprecedented economic sanctions on the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who failed to respond to a Friday deadline to allow 500 observers into the country to monitor the government's response to civil unrest. More than 3,500 people have reportedly been killed in the eight-month-long crackdown.The sanctions will bar private and commercial airlines from flying in and out of Syria, and all assets belonging to the government and its officials will be frozen.